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Abbie 💕 lapsed academic 🤯

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[greekmythcomix]

🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

[the-beginning-of-somewhere]

My roommate is back with more translations into old Semitic languages!!

2 poems/songs, both in Ugaritic, and chapters 1-4 of Gideon the Ninth in Biblical Hebrew — both poems have a back translation into English, and GtN has extremely thorough notes for those of us who don’t speak ancient Semitic languages :)

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (Macbeth V.v.20-31)

We Raise Our Cups (Hadestown)

Chapter 4 of GtN in BH

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[notisaidtherat]

Day 28 of my 100 day reset

So i decided not to post every day so this is the first update in a while.

I've had a pretty good July! I visited my friend in York.

I tried bouldering for the first time (Which is a lot harder than it looks!). And I went back to yoga after god probably at least 7 years.

[mysticorset]

Finished another one! Just need to wash + iron + frame it now!

[notisaidtherat]

Me, dumping a whole bag of shredded iceberg lettuce into a bowl: Behold, the perfect salad!

[franzkavkas]

I think kafka’s diaries are the strongest evidence that journaling is not necessarily good for your mental health

[a-suffusion-of-yellow-deactivat]

it's because he didn't use washi tape

[notisaidtherat]

Day 3 of my 100 day reset. 25.06.25

Haven't gotten a whole lot done today bc there was a birthday here so I had to do birthday things.

[notisaidtherat]

Day 2 of my 100 day reset. 24.06.25

Went to a new gym this morning that was miles better than my usual one.

Got an unpleasant work task done, so glad of that.

Didn't get a whole lot else noteworthy done though so tomorrow I will need to work a harder. I ended up finding an old blog of mine that I ran very briefly a few years ago. I had completely forgotten about it so it was quite surreal scrolling through it. Also quite sobering though because I don't want to repeat mistakes I made back then when I was originally trying to find a PhD.

Song of the day:

[notisaidtherat]

Day 1 of my 100-day reset. 23.06.25

I'm trying to rekindle my old work ethic. I'm hoping that if I can jump-start it in the next few months then I'll be in a good position to start applying for PhDs by Q4.

Today, I did 100% of my to-do list. I re-joined the gym. I re-started studying German. And I bought a new plant. I wrote 1,140 words (first thing I've written in a LONG time), and aptly I've started week 1 of the Artist's Way.

Song of the day:

[pompadourpink]

antiquity related expressions

- se croire sorti-e de la cuisse de jupiter “to believe that one was born out of jupiter’s thigh” (dionysos’ reference) : being henry winter pretentious

- être d’un calme olympien : being very calm, stoic

- être dans les bras de morphée : being in morpheus’ arms, asleep

- être médusé-e : being stunned

- avoir des yeux de lynx (lynceus’ reference) : having a piercing look

- se reposer sur ses lauriers “to rest on one’s laurels” : to use acquired skills to keep going without trying to work harder

- agir comme une furie “to act like a fury/erinys” : to be enraged

- toucher le pactole (king midas’ reference) : to earn a lot of money

- être riche comme crésus : being very rich

- être un apollon : being a handsome man

- prendre le taureau par les cornes “taking the bull by the horns”

- s’attirer les foudres de x “to attract someone’s lightings” : to anger someone

- une tour de babel : a chaotic meeting where people argue

- la boîte de pandore : the source of troubles

- le tonneau des danaïdes : an endless task

- un travail de titan “a titan’s job” : a very hard task

- tomber de charybde en scylla “to fall from charybdis to scylla” : getting out of a bad situation to end up in a even worse one 

- la perfide albion : england

- le talon d’achille “achileus’ heel” : someone’s weakness

- une épée de damoclès : a threatening, impending danger

- une pomme de discorde : the subject of an argument

- un rire homérique : a very loud laugh

- le fil d’ariane “ariadne’s thread” : way to move forward in a difficult situation + perdre le fil “to lose the thread” : to lose track in a conversation/story telling

- un adonis : a very pretty young man

- une égérie (nymph) : a female muse, inspiration, adviser…

[sgt-dignam]

↳ Flowers (2016)

[linseedling]

I got distracted from this piece and probably won’t finish, but here’s what I have anyway! Our beautiful, weird cambrian family.

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me, listening to russian rap, not understanding a single word

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[streetkunst]